Silkscreening happened!

Silkscreening happened at my house in January!

Multiple perspectives

I really enjoy seeing multiple perspective of things. One way this manifests is that i just LOVE to look at the end result of art projects where either the whole class/room/group is given a description of the assignment and we see how all the end results are different OR things like what Corning Glass did here where they took (what appear to be) children's drawings, made them out of glass, and posted both the idea + end result.

Here are two examples from the Corning Glass Museum site......

On paper:




In glass:

Iridescent glass plate

My mother's nifty glasswork (I love iridescent stuff):

Latvian Bazaar in Newtown Square PA

My dad and I went on a road trip to Pennsylvania this weekend. Here's a picture of what our booth at the Latvian bazaar in Newtown Square looked like:

I got new knobs!!!

New cabinet knobs!



My mother is trying out something new and I'm the tester. Glass photo transfer in Latvian designs. Sweet!

Catching up with October art - 1 of 8

Holy cow, it's been 2 months since I FTP'd any pictures of stuff over here. Eeeek! Ok. Let's celebrate the beginning of the new year by catching up on art stuff from the past 3 months...... starting with classic October activities.... Here are some more pumpkins that we carved at art night at Lara's house just a few days before Halloween!



Carving 9+ pumpkins led to a whole lot of pumpkin seeds, too - most of which ended up roasted. These were fun to play with in the bowl to make nifty designs:

I <3 fall

Art from Ventura

no hotel art. sorry. i was too wiped out. no airport art because I was too entertained walking around and doing other stuff. HOWEVER. I do have someone else's art to share! Check this out --- I bid on a small print in a silent auction while at Dziesmu Svetki in Ventura.... and I won! It just came in the mail while I was out last week:



(artist = M. Taube)

Lara's tile

Mark's tile

So... I don't know if it was Mark C, Mark H, or Mark M who left all those comments last week, but thank you :) I enjoyed them! Speaking of Mark, here's some Mark art from my basement ceiling:

a cauldron of bottle caps!

A friend from work found out I collect bottle caps for another friend's wife's art projects and swore to me he had "...a cauldron of them at home..." apparently in his front closet. I didn't believe him...



looks like I should have :)

Sushi!

At the request of my relatives, I brought sushi over to my aunt's house on Sunday.... but instead of making it at home, I brought all the *tools* to do it at her house. Here's some that my mom made:

hot dog art?

One entertaining art night we, ah, started playing with food - cutting it in to small pieces, mixing different food together and rearranging it:



the real art, however, is the smile-y face made with the orange bingo stamper that you can see just under one of the plates ;)

Peep art!

OK... so this post might be a little bit cheating.... it's from *last* year, but I've been away from home and largely away from art supplies for the past week.... I made one of these.... can you guess which one? Others were made by 11frogs, Live without regrets, Leigha's mom, and Nick....

Peep Wine!


Peep UFO and alien!


Peeps waterskiing!


Peep fertility/wedding!


Peep-zilla!


Peep-zilla's demise in the microwave...

Melissa & Jen's tile

Some tile-in-progress photos I found this morning....

Lindsay painting "Pig in Space" on my kitchen table:




Me on the kitchen floor with some oh-so-helpful helper looking for attention:



After installing the recessed lights, the tiles that went around the lights had to be painted "Sistine Chapel" style... while they were actually in the ceiling:

Dwight's tile

Karuna's tile

Now you have met Armand!

Selga's tile

Kristina's tile